One thing i will never get over with Saltburn is the little details.
Oliver going through the house naked following the same route that Felix guided him through when he first visited…
The camera work with that scene for Felix panning to the right constantly as he explains the different ‘landmarks’ for Oliver to remember his way around the house… but with Oliver’s scene the camera is constantly going to the left as it follows him dancing through the halls.
How quickly the camera follows Felix in the moment, almost too eager to keep him in the line of sight… but for Oliver its slower and uncaring that it lags behind him or that it gets Ollie out of frame from time to time.
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the writer in me has two things in mind:
it could be the house itself, reluctant to become a home for this new invader but cannot ignore him.
or its Felix’s ghost. His soul having not passed on just stalks the halls trying to make Oliver uneasy and afraid just as he felt the night he died, but Oliver kinda just revels in the attention like a freak.
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“They’re pretty.”
The words drift through the lazy afternoon air – and Jack lets them. He doesn’t lean into them, maybe, but he doesn’t push against them. He flexes his wingtips slightly, feels the breeze run through the freshly preened feathers. If this were just a week ago, he’d be squirming. The idea of someone seeing his wings, really seeing them, picking apart all the rough edges and cracked pinfeathers, always made him hunch into himself, made him puff up his wings, his chest, to seem bigger than he really was. If you look at me, it’ll cost you. If you look at me, it’ll hurt. That’s the message he’s meant to be sending – but now, all he can think of is Spot, with her veiny, leathery wings running from her shoulders to her back, baring them towards the sun so she can watch the light stain them pink. He thinks of Barney and the way he wobbles whenever he takes flight – and so he rolls backward instead, wings spread like a firework, allowing everyone to stare as he somersaults while others only glide. He thinks of Davey, baring his paper-wings for all to see, the perfect opposite of what Jack’s always been. Look at me, that’s what he’s saying. You don’t scare me. And now Davey’s here, his knees bracketing Jack’s back, his thumb stroking over one of his feathers like he would a precious stone. And it’s hard to feel like anything less than a king for it.
“Thanks.” Jack says quietly. He’s mostly certain he means it. That’s fine – he knows how to work on a ‘mostly’.
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Boy King AU | Vettonso + Martian | 1.3k
There's something about putting the future emperor of the Holy Realm on his knees like this. About how easily he goes, how willingly, how obediently. What would his adoring public think if they could see him now. If they saw their beloved king pressed down like this, in the cramped space between Fernando's legs. When they realized their little boy king took it like he was a little concubine instead.
Fernando's bitterness is lifted away in moments like these, like taking off a heavy cloak on a winter's day. It was hard to feel humiliated about his own situation when watching Sebastian debase himself like this.
He always gives himself up so easily. When Fernando threaded his fingers through his thick curls. When he pulled them, and then when he pressed his face down further down into the vee of his legs. Sebastian rubbed his cheek into the coarse fabric of Fernando's breeches and blinked up at him. Fernando had to smother an embarrassing sound; he was just like a little cat!
Sebastian quirked his lips up into an odd little smile and slightly rose up on his knees, "What's funny?" Fernando swallowed lightly and schooled his face back into being impassive, "Nothing. As you were." Sebastian simply smirked at him and let himself be pushed back down by the fist clenched in his hair.
Fernando scoffed internally, there was only so much pleasure in putting the other man in his place when he instead acted like this, this degrading action, was his birthright. He took to ruling and indulging in carnal pleasures as if they were of equal gravity. To be privileged to hold such high station and also let himself be taken apart like this…Fernando felt embarrassed for him.
He is dragged away from his musings when Sebastian moved to settle his hands in Fernando's lap, clutching his hips over the fabric and slightly squeezing; Fernando fought against the urge to shiver. Sebastian pushed up the skirt of Fernando's waistcoat and smoothed his hands over the opening flap of his breeches.
His eyes darted up at Fernando again, a daft smile on his face. Fernando scowled at him, "What?" Seb's grin sharpened, "You could stand to be a little more gracious. This is your future emperor, and future husband might I add, kneeling for you on this dirty, depraved, derelict- ah–" Fernando tugged on his hair again and hissed, "Well then, why don't you show me how eager you are to perform your marital duties?"
Seb licked his lips, completely unconcerned by Fernando's annoyance, and unbuttoned one side of the closure to Fernando's breeches and moved to open the other–
The door to the carriage flew open, arrival announcement dying on a wheezing breath as the servant took in the image the two kings made. One splayed across the seat, exuding power, the other kneeled, debauched, between the former's legs.
One would be hard pressed to determine which was higher on the totem of power and titles.
There was something gratifying about this to Fernando, about being caught. He had been humiliated enough throughout the entire courtship, what was one more thing? And, certainly, what was one more thing if he could drag Sebastian down into the dirt with him.
"Oh Mark, don't act so abashed! It's nothing you haven't seen before, in fact, we have been in this very position not even a fortnight ago!"
Oh. Yes. That.
It was hard to be completely pleased when he remembered how Sebastian had already spent years prior to their engagement sampling the palace's ample selection of fellow high-born men. And how all those men seemed to be completely and utterly wrapped around his little finger.
Fernando released his hand from Sebastian's hair as if it had burned him. He did not understand why he felt ashamed with Mark looking in on them like this. Fernando was the one marrying Sebastian, not Mark; Mark was just a lowly courtier who had the esteemed duty of spending practically every waking hour with the brat…something he himself was decidedly not looking forward to.
Sebastian stayed kneeling, staring impassively up at Mark, still fiddling with the clasp on Fernando's breeches. Fernando gritted his teeth and looked up from where he was watching Sebastian's clever little hands; Mark stared back at him placidly.
Mark's indifference made the entire situation worse. Fernando now felt as if he was not doing anything unique, not doing anything particularly new. How many other men had Mark caught Seb with in this exact position? Fernando felt like he was just another plaything of the boy king, soon to be boy emperor, except his position was forever, permanent. He was the "Kept King", the king who only kept his throne due to the whims of a boy who doesn't even understand what power is.
Mark coughed, "Well," he says, "Your Majesty, I do believe you have a meeting to attend." Seb pouted at him and whined, "We were just getting to the main course," but still braced himself on Fernando's thighs and got up off the carriage floor.
Seb pranced down the steps Mark had placed next to the carriage, miming tripping sown the stairs, snickering when his action made Mark reflexively reach out to grab him, and then playfully skipped off the final step.
Fernando couldn't help but stare as Mark made the weirdest grimace in response, and he inexplicably felt all his mortification seep away from him. Huh. Maybe Mark is-
Seb then turned around and frowned at him, seemingly disappointed, but his eyes are deceivingly sharp, "Fernando, I regret to inform you that I have other duties I must attend to, you will simply have to wait." He then grinned up at Mark next to him and giggled as the other man stiffened when Sebastian looped both of his arms through Mark's.
He leaned all his weight on the other man, Mark not so much as shifting his weight, "Oh Mark, won't you carry me back to the palace? I'm so very tired after all the horse riding," Seb looked up at him imploringly.
Fernando observed as Mark rolled his eyes and shrugged off the man, though notably not pulling his arm from Seb's grasp, and he got the distinct feeling that this exact scene had been played out countless times before.
Fernando clenched his jaw as he watched Seb turn and saunter off, Mark trotting alongside him like a loyal dog. Fernando was supposed to be the unaffected one in this partnership, the unflustered one, the unconcerned one. And yet here he stood, in broad daylight, in a foreign kingdom, on the steps of a carriage with his breeches half unbuttoned and his cravat in disarray.
He heard a cough from beside him, jolted and looked to the side. Sebastian's loyal Horse Master stood there, lounging against the side of the carriage. Fernando had forgotten who had even been driving the carriage in the first place. After Seb has let himself be pushed down, his hair still windswept from their ride together, everything else seemed to fade away. His thoughts were reduced only to how he could mess up the younger man's hair further.
Jenson grinned at him wolfishly, and casually crossed his legs, "First time?" he inquired. Fernando glared at him. The other man laughed openly at him, "What? He's a busy man with big prospects. You're not his majesty's only conquest, you know. Now your throne on the other hand…"
Fernando seethed, it was one thing to be humiliated by the future emperor, but to be patronized by the king's horse boy? No. It would simply not do. He closed his eyes in annoyance, pinched the bridge of his nose, exhaled, and prepared a speech about how he was not about to be talked down to by a man who didn't even have a throne to speak of!
But when he opened his eyes again and opened his mouth to begin his tirade, Jenson was already wandering away to tend to the horses. Dios mío, Fernando was not mentally prepared to spend the rest of his life with all of these impertinent morons.
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My brain has been fucking around with me lately, because as soon as im falling asleep, these past few days, the first thing i see is shifting mound. She doesn't look exactly the same like she does in the game tho. Her face looks like face of a statue, and half of her face looks like part of it, was cut out, leaving this corner in her head? Like a cube was cut out from her face. Idk how else to explain(I'll try to sketch it later, and add the sketch later on)
She always appears in this white void and talks to me
Weird feeling
Also, might as well share a few things she said to me:
"welcome home, dear. I was longing for your return. Im glad to see you doing well! How you been? We all have been worried about you, while you were absent"(When i saw her for the first time)
"welcome back. You seem troubled... Don't worry, I'll make sure your anxieties won't make their way in your dreams. You deserve a good rest, dear"
"...yet again, you returned, but more troubled than before. You seem exhausted. I'll make your dreams especially nice, you deserve that"
"you can't imagine how happy i am to see you return to me, yet again. I miss your company dearly each time. And each time you return, even if you're hurt, or unhappy in any way. Im glad to have you with me. I wish i could do more to express my love and gratitude for you"
I think she said more things to me, but that's all i can remember at the moment :PP
Might update this, if she will keep appearing in my dreams,,,
But i guess that's just my brain playing games with me because of my current obsession with slay the princess. Not complaining tho
Update one: she finally appeared in her true form from the game. Wow. Had another small chat with her
"i can finally see you and you can finally see me. I waited long for this moment. And I'm glad you're here to witness it. Even if you're only one part of me that became separate, I don't mind. I still will be by your side, and you will be by mine"
"okay, i can finally talk, this time at least. So, question, why are you here?"
"i always been here"
"okay... what do you mean im part of you? Im clearly not"
"you are. You've been separated from me such a long time ago that by now you're nothing like me. But you left an empty spot in your place. A reminder of your absence. But now you're back. You returned home. And I'm glad to see that you're doing well"
Im sure we talked more but that's all i could remember at the moment
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